Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Castle to Pillbox. They surrounded an old castle, sent a surrender ultimatum to the Nazi commander. He refused. When they attacked again the next day, they found that the garrison had slipped out in the night, to fight again somewhere else. But the Germans machine-dunned some of their own troops who popped out of pillboxes with white flags...
...viscous gumbo, fighting was reduced to patrol actions. Off Leyte's western shore, Japanese reinforcement convoys appeared and were attacked by fighter bombers from Sverdrup's new strips. Some were burned and some were sunk. Thousands of Japanese troops on their way to reinforce the stubborn, holdout garrison at Ormoc died. How many thousands, no man knew, although the communiqués offered guesstimates in bold round numbers...
...that 3,500 of 6,000 troops headed for the Leyte battle lines had been killed or drowned. Two days later another convoy was smashed, with 2,000 men killed. That brought to 17,000 the total of Japanese lost at sea in disastrous efforts to reinforce the Leyte garrison. But other reinforcements have slipped through. And even the 17,000 lost showed the determination of the enemy to continue forcing every possible delay into Douglas MacArthur's Philippine timetable...
...pincers east of Metz, which had been drawing steadily together, finally closed and the city was cut off. Then the Germans began demolitions which sent debris whirling high into the smoky air. At week's end the Yanks had occupied three-fourths of Metz and captured the SS garrison commander. La Pucelle was as good as theirs...
...program for rejuvenating the Army by kicking out its more senescent generals-a crusade for which it is easy to inspire younger officers in almost any army. Behind the crusade appeared a new force-the GOU-which made its debut in Colonel Perón's garrison at Mendoza. Soon the GOU's influence had permeated the Argentine Army. The GOU's leading ideas were irresistible to soldiers: the Army was the purest, noblest thing in Argentina; it was the group best fitted to rule the country; it was the instrument of Argentine destiny...